A St. Louis-based tech nonprofit is training inmates in computer programming while they're still incarcerated to give them a shot at landing jobs in the tech industry and avoid returning to prison.

Computer programmers earn relatively high salaries: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that computer programmers earned a median annual salary of $99,700 as of May 2023. Programmers ...

The program there, sponsored by Honeywell, started the same year as the IBM program after a prisoner saw a newspaper want-ad for data processors. But these training programs were sometimes short ...

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis nonprofit LaunchCode is training people for new careers in the technology industry. LaunchCode connects program graduates with employers as paid apprentices, so they can ...

Programmers work on code to find and solve issues. They come up with strategies for enhancing and streamlining code, and they use code to implement company initiatives. While computer programmers ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...